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v- I THE SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL A40NDAY, MAY 4, 1975 Sum key Sort: Program Trains Minority Group Journalist ARMLESS STATUE It is generally believed by art authorities that the arms of the Venus de Milo were broken off the statue was discovered, after having been buried for a great period of time. MAR CEREAL CIVILIZATIONS All major civilizations have been built on cereal production I Egyptian, Greco-Roman. Middle Eastern: wheat: Far Eastern: rice; Ince. Aztec. Maya: corn, according to dia Britannica.

i More than 920,000 Americans are troubled by emphysema, a respiratory disease that kills over 20,000 every year. No queen has ever ruled France. VOTE FOR GEORGE CAP'' SWIFT PUCE HOI OF REPRESENTATIVES Pd Pol. Adv. By IP aWIFT By NAOMI ROCK AP Newsfeatnres Writer NEW YORK (AP)'- Last June, George Lane, year-old letter carrier in Denver, Colo, quit the job he had held for 10 years, left his wife and two children for 10 weeks, and came Manhattan to change his life.

Today George Laneisa.race relations and poverty beat reporter for The Denver Post. The summer before Gloria Rojas, 29, left her nine-year-long job as a New York City school teacher to pursue the career she might have chosen if my world had not been so limit- ed years before. Gloria Rojas is now a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York. At 21, Monica Kaufman was working as an editorial aid last year on the Louisville Times, when one of the newspapers executives asked if she'd like to be a reporter. Today Monica Kaufman is a feature writer in the Times Womens Department.

Angela Terrell, 32, married and the. mother of two young children, worked for a time as a secretary in Philadelphia after two years of college. She had begun writing plays in elementary school and had continued writing-poetry, plays, short stories but had been unable to get a job in journalism because I was a woman and because I was black. Then, last year, she read about a unique program. Today Charles Dickens' last work was The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which he left unfinish- ed at his death.

Tak cistioft be re re mi with ujr fire I gram was conceived by Prof Fred W. Friendly, chairman of Columbia Journalism's regular nine-month broadcast program, and a former president of CBS. The idea was born of criticism of the news nations media by a series of studies noting that fewer than 5 per cent of editorial jobs were held by Negroes. One siicfi report, issued In March 1968 by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, chastised the news media for being shockingly backward in seeking out, hiring, training and promoting Negroes. Columbia Journalism took the recommendations literally.

There is no educational requirement for admission, but students chosen must demonstrate a current or potential writing ability, and a reasonable knowledge of both grammar and typing. Were trying to find people Si Wallace TALKS WITH THE PEOPLE! Monday May 4 Mu. AGNES BAGGETT FOR STATE TREASURER Subject to Democratic Primary, May 5, 1970 FROM CLERK TO REPORTER Monica Kaufman left the Louisville Times for a ten-week journalism course at Columbia University, and returned to the Times as a womens feature writer. there are endless reading as- signments, seminars, lengthy research papers, and special projects involving cameras, tape recorders, film editing and television equipment. While at Columbia the students have no financial worries.

They are provided with tuition, room and board and, when necessary, family stipends. And when they leave they are virtually guaranteed that the school will find them a job. For me, said Gloria Rojas, the summer program meant a second chance. It provided the opportunity to pursue the career I really wanted the career I might have chosen had my world not been so limited when the time came to decide what I would do. But being in the ghetto led me to consider only those ca she Is a features and obituary writer for the Philadelphia Bulletin.

George Lane, Gloria Rojas, Monica Kaufman and Angela Terrell have more in common than their professions. Lane. Miss Kaufman and Mrs. Terrell are black and Mrs. Rojas is a Puerto Rican.

They are members of a tiny corps of minority group journalists thought to number about 150 across the entire country. And they are among 56 black, Puerto Rican and Mexican-Americans trained 'over the past two summers In what, thus far, is the only program of its kind in the country: The Columbia University graduate School of Journalisms summer course for minority group members. Twenty students from 10 states made up the first class- CHECK FOR LOCAL STATION TIME! for broadcast journalism in the reers that members of minority um GLORIA ROJAS a summer journalism program turned a school teacher Into a television news personality. who ought to be journalists regardless of their education or current occupations, Friendlv explained. I wish I could reach minority group Americans and 1 make them understand how im portant journalism is today.

Too few blacks, Puerto Ri- George on the other hand, had thought in high schonl cans members of other mi-about writing as a career, but nority groups understand this. 1 had discarded the idea and 1 wish they would ask them-went to work for the post of- selves, Who is in a better posi- YOUR VOTE AND YOUR SUPPORT WILL BE APPRECIATED OJ idow of G. Lamar Baggett, a war veteran Employed in legal division of Railroad Stenographer and file clerk, chief clerk, to first assistant in your Secretary of States Office Active member of Womens Clubs, American Legion Auxiliary, OES, and on the Board of her Church A proven record of efficient service as your Secretary of State, Auditor and State Treasurer. Ccl'imbua, Miss. WCBI-TV Meridian, Miss.

WT0K-TV Chattanooga, linn. WDEF-TV WTVC-TV Panama City, Fla. WJHG-TV Mobil WEAR-TV Mont(omiry WC0V-TV WKAB-TV WSFA-TV Tuscaloosa WCPT-TV Columbus, 6a. WRBL-TV WTVM-tV" Anniston WHMA-TV Birmingham WBMGTV lothm WTVY Florincn W0WI-TV Hunts villi WAAY-TV WHNT-TV vrasLiv 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

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8:00 8:00 m. tion to influence America another black lawyer, or a black Walter Cronkite? Pd Pol Adv By Friend of George Wallace, Jack Wallace, jClaytor Ala. Chmn. summer of 1968. Of the 20, aged 20 to 35.

13 had little or no journalism experience, and the others were cub reporters for rado and television stations which sponsored their sojourn in New York and took them back as newsmen. The following summer the program was expanded to 38 students and two divisions: broadcast an4 print. The programs 56 graduates 43 men and 13 women were chosen from more than 250 applicants. This summer. Colombia, Jour-nalism expects to have at least 35 students in its highly intensive 10-week course.

The program, financed by grants from the Ford Foundation. teaches the fundamentals of news reporting and news writing at a grueling pace. The students nominal 40-hour week is infinitely longer. For in addition to reporting and writing, furing Mrs. Baggett's present term of office as State Treasurer she put into effect and administered a 19,67 law -requiring banks to pay interest on State deposits.

Her successful administration of this law has already resulted in the general fund of Alabama receiving over $8 million. She has insisted that as interest rates rise the banks pay the State more interest. This has led to a bonus for the general fund. VOTE FOR A PROVEN RECORD Pd Pol. Adv.

by friend of Agne Baggett, Montgomery, Ale. fice. Three years ago he took a part-time job as a copy boy for the Denver Post. When Post editors offered him sponsorship at Columbia he grabbed the opportunity. The Columbia program gave me a chance to do something meaningful, Lane said recently.

At first I didnt want to cover news about black people and about the ghetto. But now I find that I can handle these subjects better than a lot of my colleagues. Its a whole new world for me. The idea for the summer pro Re-Elect STATE SENATOR Walter C. GIVHAN JOHN PATTERSON Has Compiled A Record of Outstanding Service to Our State.

LETS ELECT HIM CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT! THE CITIZENS OF SAFFORD, ALABAMA, THE HOME COMMUNITY OF SENATOR WALTER C. GIVHAN, TAKE PRIDE IN ASKING FOR HIS RE-ELECTION ON MAY 5. WE KNOW SENATOR WALTER C. GIVHAN TO BE HONEST, LOYAL, CAPABLE, DEDICATED AND DEPENABLE. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO THE VOTERS OF DALLAS COUNTY SENATOR WALTER C.

GIVHAN, A PUBLIC SERVANT OF THE HIGHEST ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN STATE GOVERNMENT. He IS NEVER TOO BUSY TO LEND A HELPING HAND. 1. 2. 4.

Born Sept. County Son of Mrs. Agnes Louise (Benson) Patterson and the late Albert L. Patterson Enlisted in the U. S.

Army in 1940 as a private, he rose to rank of Major serving in North Africa, Sicilian, Italian, French and German campaigns of WW II. Recalled to duty during Korean conflict, he served with the Judge Advocate General's Section, Headquarters, 4th Infantry Division, prosecuting and defending criminal cases for the U.S. Army. Honor Graduate of University of Alabama law School in 1949. During undergraduate school at the University of Alabama and later Law School, he was a member of Phi Eta Sigma, scholastic fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa, honor society, board of editors of Alabama Law Review, Phi Alpha Delta, legal fraternity, Farrah Order of Jurisprudence, legal schplastic organization and an honorary life member of Sigma Kappa, legal fraternity.

Having joined his father's law firm, he played a major role in the cleanup of Phenix City after his father's assassination. 7. Elected Alabama's Chief Legal Officer, cs attorney General, Patterson deligently enforced Alabama's laws, waging a continuous battle against organized crime, loan shark and other illegal activities. Fought tirelessly to preserve the State's laws. Named one of the ten outstanding young men in America.

8. Following a grass roots campaign of "Nobody but the people," Patterson was elected 49th Governor of Alabama at 37, the youngest ever elected. Patterson's administration brought unprecedented expansion in many areas from education, to help for the oged and needy, economic stability, leaving office with a balanced budgand a (surplus in the treasury, a four-year period of good government benefiting the State and the people of Alabama. 9. Practicing attorney in Montgomery since leaving the Governor's office.

10. Married to the former Mary Joe McGowin; they have two children. Albert L. Patter 'n, III, a Cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and.

Barbara Louise, a student at Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery. A 1 1 Member of Methodist Church, American Legion, V.F.W., Elks, Alabama Bar Association and Alabama Academy of Honor. 5. Mr. Mrs.

E. D. Browder Mr. Martin D. Smith Mr.

Mrs. R. M. Caine Mr. D.

C. Lyons Mr. Mrs. James E. Whidby Mr.

Mrs. J. P. Klinner Mr. Euel Baker Mrs.

L. E. Baker Mr. Felix Baker Mr'. Mrs.

Fred F. Morgan Mrs. W. T. Oakes Mr.

Revis C. Shields Mrs. Grace W. Shuptrine Mr Mrs. Woodfin Caine, Jr.

Mr. Mrs. John Bell Mr. Mrs. Charles Caine Mr.

Mrs. R. Flinn Suther Mr. Mrs. S.

G. Howard Mr. Mrs. James N. Pruitt Mr.

Mrs. J. L. Cox Mr Mrs. Charlie Weeks Mr.

Steven E. Thomas Col. Mrs. Joseph Decker Mrs. Neal Miller, Sr.

Mr. Mrs. Russell Foster Mr. Mrs. T.

M. Price Mr. Mrs. James E. Jones Mrs.

Gordon Russell Mr. Mrs. Bill Russell Mr. Mrs. S.

D. Richardson Mr. Mrs. R. B.

Caine, Jr. Mr. Mrs. Charlie E. Cruce Mr.

Mrs. John Givhan Mr. Mrs. Neal Miller, Jr. Mr.

J. P. Majors Mr. Mrs. H.

E. Majors Mr. Harry H. Miller Mrs. Jewell J.

Bailey Mr. Mrs. Robert S. Andrews Mr. Mrs.

M. F. Suther Mrs. Ida Welcher Mr. Mrs.

W. H. Givhan Mr. Mrs. Thomas W.

Suther Mr. Mrs. Samuel P. Givhan Mr. Mrs.

Lee Jones Mr. Mrs. A L. Fuller Mr. Mrs.

C. C. Phillips Mr. Mrs. W.

S. Rhodes 6. This paper ran a free editorial Sunday, April 26th telling you of all the good things they could think up for their candidate. I am buying this space so that you voters can have a choice and vote for the man you think best qualified. For weeks I've reminded you of the many, many things JOHN PATTERSON did for Dallas County and now I want you to see his personal record.

Pd. Pol. Adv. by Walter H. Craig, A Friend of John Patterson A- Paid Pol.

Adv. by The Above Named CITIZENS OF AFFORD y. -4.